ABC13 gets you bus-ready: Solutions from bad roads to bad routes

Of all the anxieties you or your children have about getting to school on the first day, making sure the bus can get down your street shouldn't be one. But it was for one Tomball mother who turned to ABC13 Investigates for help.

"It was horrible," Karen Austin, a Tomball ISD mother, told ABC13 about Richard Kaye Road. "It was like going off a cliff."

A stretch of badly damaged dirt road stood between Austin's home and the highway. Tomball ISD decided school buses couldn't safely navigate it any longer, and district officials sent Austin a letter explaining the bus would no longer come down that street.

Without a fix, it meant a nearly mile-long walk in the dark to Highway 249 along a road with no streetlights.